They also use crampons, ice screws and carabiners. The conditions have to be just right: When it’s too warm, the ice grows soft and can separate from the rock wall; when it’s too cold, the ice becomes ...

The deep seafloor showed a flourishing ecosystem, and the team believes they may have discovered several new species during their research.

When the A-84 iceberg calved in January, it unveiled a 209-square-mile swath of seafloor. Nearby scientists rushed to the ...

An international team on board Schmidt Ocean Institute's R/V Falkor (too) working in the Bellingshausen Sea rapidly pivoted ...

Earth’s frozen places — ice sheets, glaciers and permafrost — are melting: a clear sign of climate change and a planet ...

A gigantic iceberg cracked off Antarctica on Jan. 13, revealing a swath of ocean that had not seen daylight in decades. Researchers decided to search the seafloor under the freshly exposed ocean. What ...

It’s the kind of event that when it happens, you leave whatever you’re doing,” said Patricia Esquete, the expedition’s chief scientist.

PRANCING elegantly around an arena on a beautiful horse, it’s easy to see how three-time Olympic dressage gold medallist ...

To solve the Milky Way mystery, de Ruiter devised a method to identify radio pulses lasting seconds to minutes within the ...

But tragically the dreams of the Suffolk teenager were cut short when he became one of the youngest victims of the 1912 disaster as the infamous ship hit an iceberg. The thoughts of Thomas as he was ...

Science and technology editor Tom Clarke has been flying over A23a, the world's largest iceberg, and seen first-hand its vast scale, its cracks and the dangers it could pose to wildlife and shipping ...